Colin Thompson's books are mystical & complex they will appeal to children & adults alike & demand to be returned to as there is always a new image to see something more to catch the eye Peter & his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library & at night when the library comes to life Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume How To Live Forever ...

The ultimate insider's guide to the country of Japan full of inspiration & insight to help you experience the very best of Japanese design cookery philosophy & culture So get outdoors be gracious to your neighbour & start harmonizing your all too busy life 224 pages 150 colour photographs & illustrations Yazawa Yutaka ...

This book will teach you everything you need to know about removing unnecessary plastic from your life 224 pages Marine Conservation Society ...

For generations conventional wisdom stated that you could never sell a book with 'penis' in the title
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How to get on well with people how to deal with violence how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92) who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought & experience unlike anything written before Into these essays he put whatever was in his head his tastes in wine & food his childhood memories the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming events in the appalling civil wars raging around him The Essays was an instant bestseller & over four hundred years later readers still come to him in search of companionship wisdom & entertainment
- & in search of themselves This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed & the answers he explored
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11-year-old Rose is autistic & struggles to understand her classmates But when her father gives her a stray dog which she names Rain the dog becomes her best friend her anchor in a confusing world So when Rain goes missing during a storm Rose refuses to stop looking for him A touching story from the bestselling author of The Babysitters Club ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Andie Anderson the how-to girl for Composure Magazine agrees to write a firsthand account of all the things women do to drive away men she has to find a guy make him fall in love with her then get dumpedàall in 10 days But little does she know that her targe t ad agency hottie Benjamin Barry has just made a high-stakes bet with his boss that he can make any girl fall in love with him i n 10 days So while she&s trying to lose him he&s doing whatever it takes to keep her! ...

By the much-loved author of The Journey Home & Dinosaur Farm Everyone knows that once a lemur takes a fancy to you there is not much that can be done about it While being followed by lemurs one day a boy tries hiding up a tree (without luck) disguising himself (without success) & even tries to sail off in a boat to get away from them
- only to discover the lemurs snorkeling behind him Eventuallyafter climbing mountains taking trains & going through the air in a balloon he finally thinks that he has lost them Or has he? In the process he has managed to get himself lost & it is only then that he realizes that the cunning lemurs might just be helpful after all
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In this definitive account of the momentous In Out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union Sky News Senior Political Correspondent Jason Farrell teams up with blogger & Economics & Politics teacher Paul Goldsmith to provide the definitive explanation of what led to one of the biggest shocks in political history
- Brexit The product of extensive & refreshingly frank interviews with the key players in both campaigns coupled with a thorough exploration of the historical decisions that led to Britain's departure How to Lose a Referendum takes us from the creation of the European Union after the Second World War to David Cameron's renegotiation in 2016 & its astonishing aftermath It looks at what went wrong with the EU brand the treaties & the changes & consequences that came with them & asks why a project designed to promote peace & prosperity was ultimately so hard to defend Along the way Farrell & Goldsmith identify eighteen key reasons why the UK chose to leave In each case whether it be an individual like Nigel Farage social change such as the rise of a disaffected electorate or the failure of the remainers' message to hit home
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play How To Lose Friends & Alienate People How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young a disillusioned intellectual who both adores & despises the world of celebrity fame & glamour His alternative magazine Post Modern Review pokes fun at the media obsessed stars & bucks trends & so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young&s disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe Thus begins Sidney&s descent into success
- his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes
- & a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen that will either make him or break him Ghost Town Deadpan hilarity & quirky charm come alive in Ghost Town starring Britain&s favourite comedian Ricky Gervais (The Office) as social reject Bertram Pincus Emmy award winner & seven times Bafta winner Gervais proves his Hollywood worth in this transatlantic feel good love story about a man a woman & a ghost Pincus is a New York City dentist with horrendous people skills When a routine surgery goes awry Pincus is pronounced dead but is miraculously revived seven minutes later The ill-mannered Manhattanite suffers only one lasting after-effect; the ability to see & speak with the dead Word soon gets out in the spirit community & Pincus is irritated to discover he&s the go-to-guy for every phantom with unfinished business in the city At the forefront of the ghostly mob is recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear
- Little Miss Sunshine Baby Mama) who is determined to stop the remarriage of his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni
- Spanglish Fun with Dick & Jane) The laughs unfold when the prickly & romantically inexperienced Pincus smitten with Gwen tries to woo her away from her betrothed
- with hysterically awkward results With sharp performances & beautifully dry Gervais execution Ghost Town won&t fail to make viewers laugh out loud With a host of special features including commentary from renowned director David Koepp & &making Ghost Town& this is one DVD that should be in the collection of every Ricky Gervais fan




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